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Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous), line 860 (search)
A BOEOTIAN
By Heracles! my shoulder is quite black and blue. Ismenias, put
the penny-royal down there very gently, and all of you, musicians
from Thebes, pipe with your bone flutes into a dog's rump.This kind of flute had a bellows, made of dog-skin, much like the bagpipes of to-day.
DICAEOPOLIS
Enough, enough, get you e has sprung this accursed swarm of CharisA flute-player, mentioned above. fellows which comes
assailing my door?
BOEOTIAN
Ah! by Iolas!A hero, much honored in Thebes; nephew of Heracles. Drive them off, my dear host, you will please me
immensely; all the way from Thebes, they were there piping behind me
and have completely strThebes, they were there piping behind me
and have completely stripped my penny-royal of its blossom.
But will you buy anything of me, some chickens or some locusts?
DICAEOPOLIS
Ah! good day, Boeotian, eater of good round loaves.A form of bread peculiar to Boeotia. What do you
bring?
BOEOTIAN
All that is good in Boeotia, marjoram, penny-royal, rush-mats,
lamp-wicks, ducks, jays, woodcocks,